Find and open WordPerfect Files

[laurin1]

I'm working on a coversion program and I need to know how to find all the *.wpd file names in a directory, and then open them in WordPerfect. I pretty sure I can figure the last part out, but I need to know how to get file names from a directory.

[herewasplato]

...find all the *.wpd file names in a directory...

Open a "DOS window"

type DIR /?

read the options

I would pick options like:

DIR /s /b "c:\some folder\*.wpd" > c:\list-of-files.txt

(untested - could have syntax errors)

If you are going to do this over and over, then you might want to make your "DIR" line part of your script. [search the forum for "DIR".] If making this list is a one time thing, then just do it from the "DOS window" (Command Prompt window) and use the resulting text file as part of your conversion script.

have fun